Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
Hanna Rosin -
You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
Irene Dunne -
I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like I want to escape from the Midwest. A writer lives a great deal in his own head, and so one intuitively finds places where your head is more clear. New York for me is one of those places.
Garrison Keillor -
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
Natalie Dormer -
I used to spend my holidays there in my grandparents' large family house, with my numerous cousins. When I die, I am going to be buried in the village cemetery.
Yves Chauvin -
I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
Alan Ball
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I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
Jane Gardam -
The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
R. C. Sproul -
Nothing is forgotten in the processes of idealization. Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him.
Gaston Bachelard -
People go out to the vigil for their own individual reasons, but primarily it's to pay our respects and share our grief collectively.
F. Thomson Leighton -
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
Euripides -
Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
Honore de Balzac -
Messi is in a different world. He is the best player in world football, without any doubt.
Arjen Robben -
I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."
Regina King -
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
Albert Einstein -
Thurmond Rule,” a largely fictional claim that in presidential-election years the party whose President is in office is supposed to sit on its hands and await the outcome in November. This is named for Senator Strom Thurmond, arch-segregationist to the end; Strom Thurmond, who never saw a wasteful weapons system he didn't want to fund; Strom Thurmond, who attempted to get John Lennon deported; Senator Strom Thurmond, who has no moral standing to be invoked for one blessed thing. If we truly believe that this is a real emergency because these vacancies are denying the opportunity for Americans to be heard when their fundamental rights and liberties are in jeopardy, then we should insist that the Senate not allow the Thurmond rule to be the last word.
Barry W. Lynn -
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Seneca the Younger